The best gravel rides around Fogars de la Selva

If you pass by the Can Valls path, it's worth stopping to look at these three strange structures. They are not modern kilns: they are traditionally dated to the 9th–10th centuries, and one of them is still practically whole. Here, pine and oak stumps and wood were slowly baked to obtain "pega", a kind of vegetable tar used to waterproof boats and containers, and also for lighting. What's curious is to think that more than a thousand years ago, people were already working this forest and exploiting its resources right at this spot. A small stop that, if you don't know what you're looking at, goes completely unnoticed.

It looks as if we were some centuries back in time!

Before the telephone, radio, or internet, messages could also travel at high speed. This tower was part of a 19th-century optical telegraph network: from the top, a system of mechanical signals was observed with telescopes from the next tower, which repeated the message to the following one. Thus, information could cover enormous distances without anyone having to transport it physically. And here comes the curious part: Puigmarí was just one link in a real chain of towers that communicated Barcelona with the French border. From here, visual contact had to be maintained with the neighboring towers. If you reach it, look at the landscape and try to locate where the next one could be seen from. Suddenly you understand why they built the tower exactly here and not a hundred meters lower. A kind of 19th-century internet, but with towers, telescopes, and signals.

This small hermitage has more lives than a cat. During the Civil War it was looted and reduced to practically three walls. The image of the Virgin had better luck: the farmers of Can Preses hid it during the war. Then came the most surreal thing: abandoned for decades, its ruins ended up serving as a home for charcoal burners. In 2009, the local people got tired of seeing it die, gathered money and work, and managed to rebuild it. And just when it seemed the place was regaining its calm, in 2010 a storm with winds of over 100 km/h felled the gigantic two-hundred-year-old oak tree that stood in front. They even tried to clone it so it wouldn't disappear completely. A hidden Virgin, a looted hermitage, charcoal burners living within its walls, and a cloned tree. For a small chapel lost in the Montnegre, quite a few things have happened here.

It looks like a stone hole lost in the forest, but inside here it reached 800 °C for 10 to 12 days straight. Limestone, tons of firewood, and people feeding the fire day and night to produce the lime with which houses were built and whitewashed. Today there is only silence and forest. Years ago, this was a small hell running 24 hours a day.

conjunt arquitectonic de pedra molt ben trebalada , era un hostal i restaurant , ara tancat , semble ser que es propietat de la periodista Mercedes Milà, val la pena fer-hi una ullada, tot i que algu pot pensar que potser es propietet de la Familia Adams.

This footbridge allows you to cross the river and enjoy the view of its course in all seasons. The river changes each season according to its flow and always offers an interesting view.

Sant Martí de Montnegre Una església aïllada dins del Parc Natural del Montnegre, de gran valor per la seva integració en el paisatge forestal. És un punt de referència en les rutes de l'interior.